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NEW YORK A ambiguous decision to let Eagles linebacker Stewart Bradley back into the season opener led to significant improvement in the detection and handling of concussions during the rest of the 2010 season, a opener NFL medical adviser said Monday.

Dr. Richard Ellenbogen cited the path concussions to two Seattle Seahawks were handled in a playoff game at Chicago as proof the league had taken important steps to ensure such injuries are remedied properly.

Asked whether the incident with a woozy Bradley being granted back above the field in Philadelphia spurred the promotion, Ellenbogen said in a meeting shriek, "Had namely no happened, we may not have had the NFL sideline examination (for concussions) this annual."

The NFL has standardized those checkups for always 32 teams. Ellenbogen, the co-chairman of the league's pate, cervix and spine committee, said such standardization "will protect against accurate what occurred in Philadelphia."

During the Eagles' wastage to the Packers, quarterback Kevin Kolb sustained a concussion. While he was being examined [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Bradley likewise was injured and had staggered off the field.

Yet Bradley soon was behind playing before creature cleared as the recess of the game.

"That was the exception and not the rule," said Ellenbogen, chairman of the division of neurosurgery by the University of Washington School of Medicine.

He then complimented the way injuries to Seahawks firm end John Carlson and cornerback Marcus Trufant were handled on Jan. 16, 4 months later.

Carlson underwent a concussion and was carted off in a situation handled "perfectly," Ellenbogen said. And when Seattle cornerback Marcus Trufant was ache soon later, " team physicians or vocational active trainers were bring ... to an endthat."

"Remember, when somebody is concussed on the field, there are other doctors and trainers watching the game," he said. "So when one player gets concussed, we have others who are watching to ensure the situation in Philadelphia will not occur."

Added Ronnie Barnes, the vice president of remedial services for the Giants: "We have any number of trainers and medical staff on the sidelines. You understand, we rely on the players quite a morsel on concussions. We are constantly assessing players and constantly we are told by other players: `Watch this guy. He might have a concussion.' "

That's a mores change from the macho approximate of the quondam, one that John Madden sees as a premonitory tread toward improved player safety. The Hall of Fame adviser oversees the league's player safety conferring panel and is encouraged that medical personnel are now charged with determinations almost when a player is healthy ample to return to behavior.

"Taking it out of the coaches' hands is the way it forever should have been," he mentioned. "I go way back and it was a lack of education when I was coaching. I am not pride of it, but it's true. I remember saying (about one injured player), `What happened to him? Good, it's not a knee or an ankle, it was his head. They will give him smelling salts and he will be back in. Your head will remove up in a pair of minutes and he will be back in.'

"We were all that way. Now, you penetrate the seriousness of it."

Madden are vocation for specific terms that can be secondhand from youngster football up to the NFL to narrate a player's health. If the players shouldn't be on the field, regardless of the harm, they is a "no-go," Madden said.

"No-go is in the video game and I think it ought be used on TV by the critics," he said. "Our protocol is the player has to leave the field, be escorted off at team workers, work into the locker apartment [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and will not be made obtainable to the medium.

"Any sideline protocol in the NFL game we are going to get in the video game just to enhance awareness. On the safety panel, we're going to get more words like `no-go.' We are not there yet, merely we absence it equitable to subserve awareness."

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